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AMS/NOAA Cooperative Program for Earth System Education (CPESE)
CPESE is designed to enhance public understanding
of the fluid Earth system emphasizing the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic
sciences and to promote activity that will result in greater human resource
diversity in these sciences and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
CPESE assists NOAA in the advancement of its goals
directed towards environmental assessment and prediction, protection of life
and property, and the fostering of global environmental stewardship. NOAA's
success in meeting its mission is highly dependent upon synergistic
relationships between it and the users of its products and services.
CPESE nurtures this synergy through precollege teacher, introductory
undergraduate, and general educational activity. Fundamental to CPESE
are:
- Breadth - Demonstrating the comprehensive need for
describing and predicting changes in the Earth's environment, and conserving
and wisely managing the Nation's coastal and marine resources.
- Visibility - Increasing public awareness of the ways environmental assessment,
prediction and stewardship touch the lives of all Americans every day. ·
- Diversity - Promoting educational activity and outreach
to attract members of groups underrepresented in science and technology to
study and consider careers in those fields, including those for which NOAA has
employment needs and opportunities.
CPESE activity includes:
- Offering of DataStreme Atmosphere, a
national teacher-enhancement course (already with 7000 alumni) on weather and
climate for precollege teachers via Local Implementation Teams (LITs). The
course is delivered partially online with emphasis on use of current NOAA
products.
- Presenting DataStreme Ocean
teacher-enhancement course via LITs on a national scale which focuses on the
ocean in the Earth system.
- Conducting the Promoting Minority
Participation in Science initiative emphasizing the training of teachers
who are members of groups underrepresented in science and/or teach in schools
with 30% or more minority-student populations.
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